Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-15

appearance. know one time that /
didn't believe that they had any word
nom Robinson They were hurrying /
around getting ready to move, and / /
asked somebody 20 tel me- who 1t was
that brought the message, because 7
wanted TO ask him a question or two,
but one OF the boys said they had tele-
graft and said didn't believe any
thing Of the kind. Well ne said, you'll
believe it when we get Over there. And
did, too. When We got there found
all the fighting I wanted, and after that
[ always believed Just what the TELEGRAPH
said. You can't make an Iniun see
through it, though. I remember one
time when a lot OF redskins got away
from us and went skeddadling Of to-
ward FettermaR with Us after them. It
was cold, and the snow was up to your
neck. The general Just sent a TELEGRAPH
/ to Fetterman, and the boys there went
out and headed OF the devils, and when
We got up to them they had them round
ed up. You ought to have heard them
cuss when we came up and found them
prisoners. They swOre until the general
rent back for the chaplain, and all be-
cause We had used the TELEGRAPH on 'em.
Someone asked Leo if he did not en-
Joy himself more when the country
was new than he did after the settle
ments came, and he said; 1Well, in one
sense We had plenty Of fun. You must
put on any overland stages, and there
want nobody out here then but redskins.
OF course We had some fun with our
selves, but it used to get monotonous
once IN a while. In those days, though,
the InjUns would just as soon attack
fort as not. Generally, when we got
kind of stretehy, they'd give us a call
and then, you bet, we had enough to at
tend to for while. Later on, when they
!. pat on the FOny express, we had plenty
of exercise. That didn't last vaIV iSng
, They use to start at Fort Leasslworth
and change horses and riders at every
thirty or forty miles, To get letter by
pony express cost $40. Perhaps you
think you'd like to carry letters for that
money, but you wouldn't in them days.
The Injuns got on to it and they would
/ lay low for the riders. They picked
'em OF at the rate of one or two a week,
and as for the horses, they stole every
} one they could get their hands on.
} That's what broke up the scheme. After
the IniHns had got about $4,000 worth
OF horses the company gave up the job,
1t didn't pay. While it lasted, though,
We had plenty to do. I'll bet I've chased
one redsAin 500 miles and then didn't
catch him. They'd scatter when we goi
after 'em.
''The worst work We ever had to 10
3 was to get out after raiding parties that
, had been killing settlers. Somebody
! would come to the fort, creeping on theil
hands and knees, maybe, and tell US that
such a family had been killed 80 or 100
a miles away. Perhaps he had beer
= wounded himself, and so could not gC
! with us, and We would have to light out
and guess at the location OF the Iniuns
! We'd find EN- after a while, but in than
! days it was not quite so safe to rids Ii
on EN- as it has been of late years
5 There was more Of 'em. I suppose there
have been more'n ten thousand people
3 killed out here by Injuns. I've seer
I plenty Of 'em myself The Injun ain
! what he was. Away back In the ffiel
, he was a dreadful cute cuss.
[ Now You can i'll him up with rationl
until he looks like an alderman, and i
= you want to lick him then is your time
: Old Crazy Horse and me was good
J, friends, but he didn't know much. Whe1
: some of the other chiefs went east and
: came back with big stories about VIVA
b they had seen, and tried to tell him tina
p there were a great many more white PEG
!, pie than Injuns, he got mad and said j
Q was lie. When told him it was 81
Q he told me that I was a - liar, and
q came pretty nigh winding him up RICH
b there. Still I've seen times when
8 Thought there were e great many Injuns
g When you get in a ride pit somewhere
i with about five Thousand Of them devil
:, sailing around you, you are apt to i'm
it Rgine that there Is a powerful lot of zen
l. before you get through with them"
?. 81 like Laramie, - said Leo, as he wal
d bidding the boys good bye, ''and /
n things down east are not what I thinl
d they are I'll 90 on the retired list ant
70 come back. It seems kind of like hOml
I here after all. It's near forty years tina
Y I've been here, and during that tim
{, I've known every man who ever wen
ss out from here with a rife or q sword
le They were pretty good fellows, too, an,
d don't expect to find anybody like then
3 down east; but if the oysters and codfisl
IS are good down there I may stay awhile.
" Pacific road old Leo is free to admit tina
?. it has been a good thing, but he says h
u did not approve OF it when it was unde
} construction. "You see,'' he said, q.
2. didn't have no idea that they would eve
8, finish it. I knew something about HOY
It far it war TO the Pacific coast, because
v had been chasing Injuns out that "a,
Il before some OF them railroad men wa
g born, and never had any idea that the
It would get through with their track
,. They kept us busy for a while. Some o
# 'em was worse than redskins, too. Whel
% Julesburg was going at full blast it wa
D, more trouble to US than any Injun trib
It that we had. That's the only town
10 ever knew that had so tough a name tina
Is it had to change it. I understand tha
II they've got a dead man in every celia
sr down there. They used to have any
n how. There was one thing that like,
d about that town, though. They neYe
r. had any mosquitoes there"
a At the masquerade ball in Adm las
a week, st. Jacobs Oil took the first prize